Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That would exempt it from this pernicious tax schedule, your dealers would still collect the 15?, or at least 29? for 2, and some of us conscientious objectors would be spared the necessity of buying a 10? (untaxed) substitute. If this august State protested, we might appeal, and get a Supreme Court ruling-maybe even an historic 5-to-4 one, on the taxability of that ½?. Hell's Bells! as long as you don't charge it they can't tax it. Now, I mean this in dead seriousness...
...Bond & Share case (holding companies) await the attention of the Supreme Court. The famed 19-company challenge to TVA's constitutionality was on trial last week in Chattanooga. It is the first important case to come before one of the new special three-judge tribunals from which an appeal passes directly to the Supreme Court. And the President's Left-wing advisers are confident that he will win all three cases and then be able to dictate to the powermen his own terms for peace...
...have just witnessed a very amazing spectacle on the floor of the House of Representatives. For the first time in my 25 years as a member I have seen a majority leader, with a majority of 4-to-1, rise to appeal to his members to sign a petition to discharge his own Rules Committee from consideration of his legislation. That is definite proof of the statement I have often made: that the Democrats cannot efficiently run the House of Representatives...
...appeal for unity of Christian sects was voiced last night by Dean Sperry in a talk in Appleton Chapel on "The World Conference on Faith and Order Held at Edinburgh in August...
...will might be through some sort of prizes. Whether they be cash awards, honorary, or of the loving cup variety, such prizes would have to be patterned along the lines of the present Pulitzer Prizes, which are widely publicized and eagerly sought after by some journalists. Their appeal, however, is mainly to certain excellent papers already in existence, and again, it is highly problematical if such awards could actually "elevate the standards" of scandal sheets which are quite content to remain just that...